Angela

I’m Angela, I’m 26 years old and I come from Hungary, a small country in the heart of Europe.
I arrived in this town in the beginning of January, I like Mantova very much (except for the fog), it’s very nice and much smaller, cleaner and calmer than Budapest.

I have been living here for 2 months now. I work in the district of Mantova called Lunetta, in the Centre of Aggregation of the Youth (C.A.G.) as a volunteer (what a suprise… J).
The staff of the C.A.G. organizes the „afterschool” in the elementary school for children with learning difficulties: we help them to their homeworks, to be prepared for the next school-day. On the other hand a „space for children” (3 times a week) and a „space for teenagers” (3 times a week) are organized in the afternoon, during which and where they can play together, they can take part in different laboratories (for ex. of art, of music, of stories), they can do different activities; in one word: where they can spend their freetime in a bit organized and controlled way, but under circumstances friendly and free enough. In addition the C.A.G. organizes other events too: trips, swimming pool, amusement park, theatre, parties for children.

I like this work very much, it’s a type of work absolutely unknown for me until now, it’s a new and nice experience for me to try it and to do it. It’s an absolutely different life for me, and that’s why I’m here. I did my degree in jurisprudence and I worked more than 2 years in that field of work, which I didn’t like much. First of all that’s why I decided to „change life”, to come here in Italy and to work as a volunteer.

I hope that in the end of „my project” I will manage to learn some other things about myself, and I will know how and where to continue my adult-life.

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Ambra for Holland

Ok let’s try!
The experience that I am doing to make is completely new for me and I hope to undertake.
I have never done voluntary work before and my studies were not pertaining to social areas or humanity.
In my life, I every time take care of the others but with being so young, I will also put myself to the test with this experience !
A lot of people that I know, asked me if I was a crazy when they knew about my departure…They thought that if they were in my place, they would never do this “to sacrifice”, to take my time and work for free (or almost) for someone.
I see it in a different way, I think this project will give me more than what I will offer to it, in exchange.
I think that experience like this could enrich me from many points of view, it could make me growing, maturing and learning a lot.
I don’t know what can happen during this month but I hope, I will succeed in the organization, in giving and taking the best.
Ciao
Ambra

from Lara

Ciao,
I don’t really know what I can tell you… presently, I am really excited about the imminent departure…I don’t understand nothing anymore! Well!...I am electrified by the idea to attend experience like this! I think, it is a way how show to myself and to others what I am truly worth, how much stuff I succeed to do and how strong I am. It is a good occasion to test myself as a person, to mature, to grow, to know and extend my horizonts.
What is more, the activities that I am going to develop pertain to my studies and I guess I will take advantages of this trip also in the professional side…
Ciao
Lara

from Chiara before the brazilian expedition!

The truth is that i didn’t really have time to think so much about this departure. I gave all my energy to be patient in the expectations, and I don’t know when i will rise anchor!
However, when I think about the sentence “one year in Brazil” the frame of my mind is curiosity. Curiosity of knowing whom will I meet, what will I do, how will I react to the different situations, why was I so charmed by this experience more as any other, what diabolic ideas will pass in my mind, what impressions will make on me the persons and the place …Well! I am going to leave with my empty bag and with a great desire to fill it! (also I guess that all this patience will come with me!)"
Ciaoooo
Chiara